vicinity

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The state of being near in space or relationship; proximity: two restaurants in close vicinity.

n. A nearby, surrounding, or adjoining region; a neighborhood.

n. An approximate degree or amount: houses priced in the vicinity of $200,000.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. proximity, or the state of being near

n. neighbourhood, or the nearby region

n. approximate size or amount

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity.

n. That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In geometric topics, a place, A, is said to be in the vicinity of a place, B, within a place, C, which contains both A and B, and in a given respect, if, and only if, an object instantaneously filling A can by an ordinary motion move to B without ever leaving C, and without at any instant during its motion occupying any place which differs from A in the given respect.

n. The quality of being near; nearness in place; propinquity; proximity.

The country in the vicinity is described as being a wilderness of rare trees, matted together with graceful and flowering creepers, the wild haunts of birds of bright and beautiful plumage; but our ardour to visit these tangled shrubberies was damped by the accounts of myriads of xins-xins and garrapatos; little insects that bury themselves in the skin, producing irritation and fever; of the swarming mosquitoes, – the horrid caimans that bask on the shore; and worse than all, the venomous snakes that glide amongst the rank vegetation.